Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-311) and index

[1.] Germany : the plunder plot -- [2.] Austria : last year at Mauerbach -- [3.] Czechoslovakia -- Czech Republic : the ganef of Prague -- Slovakia : the shops on Main Street -- [4.] The Netherlands : loot thy neighbor -- [5.] Norway : traitors in their midst -- [6.] France : Les biens des Juifs -- [7.] Eastern Europe : plundering the killing fields -- Poland : forever strangers -- Hungary : the bloody Danube -- [8.] Switzerland : neighbors make good fences -- [9.] The other neutrals -- Spain and Portugal : playing both sides -- Sweden : all in the family -- Argentina : Latin safehaven -- Turkey : booty bazaar -- The Vatican : see no evil -- [10.] Restitution : righting wrongs

This volume details the large scale, systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis of their money, gold, jewels, art, and property that began in Germany with the rise of Adolf Hitler, continued through the Holocaust and the Third Reich's occupation of Europe, and culminated in a postwar cloaking campaign that stretched from Scandinavia to the Balkans to Iberia. The author, who was among the first reporters to break the story that Swiss banks were still hoarding the assets of Holocaust, researched this heartbreaking story of human greed. With direct access to classified files and through exclusive interviews with bankers, government and Jewish officials, camp survivors, and the families of victims, he explains why it has taken more than fifty years for the world to even begin to come to terms with the massive pillage and plunder

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